TITLE: Behind the crystal walls
AUTHOR: Simone of the Zordiak
PART: 13/?
EMAIL: burning_night@hotmail.com
DISCLAIMER: "They followed me home, can I keep them?"
"No, Joss owns them, now give them back." "Sigh."
They folk on "Angel" and "Buffy" might not be mine,
but I still like to play with them.
The concept and figures of "Slayers" the Anime and the
Mangas belong to people with long and unspeakable
Japanese names that I have forgotten how to spell
The gods belong themselves, but the outlook of Ares is
obviously influenced by watching Xena.
DISTRIBUTION: Feel free ... just tell me, I'd like to know where
it goes to.
RATING: PG-13 (I think)
PAIRING: Xander/Angel/Wesley
AUTHORS NOTES: English is still not my native language and this story is
not beta'd.
FEEDBACK: Is there a writer who doesn't want feedback ???
Constructive critic always welcomed
Flamers will be cursed with ancient and funny Chinese curses
and tormented with bongo playing mice I specially trained
for these occurrences
******
Angel shivered as the multi-colored energy coursed through him, changing
him anew and binding him to his life-mate. It felt good, powerful,
strange yet familiar. Like he had felt something like it before. And then
he noticed that both Xander and Wesley were emitting small amounts of
power with similar energy patterns. When he turned to L-Sama to ask her
about those patterns, he received his biggest shock. The Golden Chaos
was emitting power on a level so high and with a pattern, so complex that
he felt it was beyond his comprehension. The War God, standing next to
her, was emitting power on a level similar to his own and with a similar
pattern. Patterns, that looked like simplified versions of L-Sama's
complex one. His legs almost gave out as he made the connection.
"You are... I... the pattern..." he managed to gasp out.
"~Your observation is correct, young one~"
"~You are a power now~"
"~Like Ares is and Wesley will be~"
"What?!" Wesley felt faint. He couldn't have heard this correctly. It
was impossible.
"~You have heard this right, young Wesley~"
"~As Angel here is Death Incarnate~"
"~You are his Opposite~"
"~Life Incarnate~"
"~For Death without Life is only Destruction~"
"~And Life without Death is Stagnation~"
"~Both need the other to balance themselves~"
"~And both are needed to balance my Child~"
Her open hand pointed towards Xander, who was still half-embraced by
Angel.
"Xander?" Wesley asked half in shock. He was meant to be the second mate
to Xander! He was going to have him! Even if he had to share with Angel,
but that wasn't such a hardship. The dark ex-vampire was someone he could
learn to love rather easily. But back to the topic at hands.
"Is Xander a power, too?"
"~Yes and No~"
"~He is my Child~"
"~Born out of me~"
"~Flesh of my flesh~"
"~Soul of my soul~"
"~He is a new being~"
"~Something that had never existed before~"
L-Sama stopped, paused for a moment before she continued.
"~Everything that is, comes through me~"
"~The Powers, the Planets, Suns, everything~"
"~I am Chaos~"
"~I am everything~"
"~There were only two states of being~"
"~Chaos and Not-Chaos~"
"~Nothing in between~"
"~Whenever both states met, there were violent clashes~"
"~Alexander~"
"~My Child~"
"~He is meant to be the In-Between~"
"~Balanced by two opposite Powers~"
"~Balancing everything~"
"~But this has to be his choice~"
Now she looked square at her Child.
"~On the field of battle~"
"~The Site of Light and the Site of Darkness will approach you~"
"~Both will justify their Existence and ask you to join their fight~"
"~I can help you with your decision~"
"~That has to be your own~"
"~But either way it will influence the Existence of Everything~"
She fell silent, stepped forward and hugged Xander close to her. To her
finger, his hair was soft and his skin not as dense as it felt to the
fingers of his soon-to-be lovers. L-Sama could feel his mind whirling
and she could also feel memories of old hurts and abandonment's trying to
dig through his mental walls, to influence his final decision.
But as she had said, she couldn't help him with that, it had to be his
own choice.
"~Don't plague yourself with what might have been~"
"~Or what might will come in the future~"
"~Release your thoughts from the endless circle~"
"~Join with your second mate~"
"~Embrace your destiny~"
"~No matter what will happen~"
"~I am already proud of you~"
She smiled as she nudged a suddenly very shy Wes towards him and as the
multi-colored energy bound Life to Balance and Death and Wesley received
his staff, formed like an Egyptian Ankh, she started to fade from their
view. It hurt her a little to go now, but she was Chaos and if she
stayed on the mortal plane for too long, she would cause great
imbalances in the powerflow.
"~I will see you again, Child~"
She whispered before she unraveled into fast vanishing bands of gold.
***
Xander was a bit dazed. First the joining with Angel as his life-mate,
then his mother's revelations and the joining with Wesley as his other
life-mate... it was all a bit sudden. But all this was forgotten the
moment the connections to his mate had fully formed. It was the moment
when something inside of him stated to bubble and boil. Something very
powerful. At first he fought against it, tried to suppress it deep
inside of him, but the force was too strong to be put away and too
violent to simply let loose. What to do?
Carefully his let a small drizzle of the power raise to the surface of
his being and then infused it into the links to his mates. Slowly, but
steadily he raised the level of the power until the bubbling inside
him died down.
When he opened his eyes, the world around him had changes... or was it
him, who had changed so much? He didn't know and for the moment he didn't
really cared. The way it was now felt right to him and he knew that no
matter what was coming next, he wouldn't face it alone. His being
vibrated with the mental connections of two others who couldn't be any
more different, but exactly their differences made them perfect for him.
For the first time in two lifes he felt whole and so alive.
Ares stepped to them.
"You are in balance now. I really hope you can put an end to that battle,
it is the only war that really shouldn't happen, with the End of All and
so on. Well, are you ready? ... Here we go!"
The room was brightened by a blue flash of light and when it dissolved,
Angels living room was empty.
tbc
AUTHOR: Simone of the Zordiak
PART: 13/?
EMAIL: burning_night@hotmail.com
DISCLAIMER: "They followed me home, can I keep them?"
"No, Joss owns them, now give them back." "Sigh."
They folk on "Angel" and "Buffy" might not be mine,
but I still like to play with them.
The concept and figures of "Slayers" the Anime and the
Mangas belong to people with long and unspeakable
Japanese names that I have forgotten how to spell
The gods belong themselves, but the outlook of Ares is
obviously influenced by watching Xena.
DISTRIBUTION: Feel free ... just tell me, I'd like to know where
it goes to.
RATING: PG-13 (I think)
PAIRING: Xander/Angel/Wesley
AUTHORS NOTES: English is still not my native language and this story is
not beta'd.
FEEDBACK: Is there a writer who doesn't want feedback ???
Constructive critic always welcomed
Flamers will be cursed with ancient and funny Chinese curses
and tormented with bongo playing mice I specially trained
for these occurrences
******
Angel shivered as the multi-colored energy coursed through him, changing
him anew and binding him to his life-mate. It felt good, powerful,
strange yet familiar. Like he had felt something like it before. And then
he noticed that both Xander and Wesley were emitting small amounts of
power with similar energy patterns. When he turned to L-Sama to ask her
about those patterns, he received his biggest shock. The Golden Chaos
was emitting power on a level so high and with a pattern, so complex that
he felt it was beyond his comprehension. The War God, standing next to
her, was emitting power on a level similar to his own and with a similar
pattern. Patterns, that looked like simplified versions of L-Sama's
complex one. His legs almost gave out as he made the connection.
"You are... I... the pattern..." he managed to gasp out.
"~Your observation is correct, young one~"
"~You are a power now~"
"~Like Ares is and Wesley will be~"
"What?!" Wesley felt faint. He couldn't have heard this correctly. It
was impossible.
"~You have heard this right, young Wesley~"
"~As Angel here is Death Incarnate~"
"~You are his Opposite~"
"~Life Incarnate~"
"~For Death without Life is only Destruction~"
"~And Life without Death is Stagnation~"
"~Both need the other to balance themselves~"
"~And both are needed to balance my Child~"
Her open hand pointed towards Xander, who was still half-embraced by
Angel.
"Xander?" Wesley asked half in shock. He was meant to be the second mate
to Xander! He was going to have him! Even if he had to share with Angel,
but that wasn't such a hardship. The dark ex-vampire was someone he could
learn to love rather easily. But back to the topic at hands.
"Is Xander a power, too?"
"~Yes and No~"
"~He is my Child~"
"~Born out of me~"
"~Flesh of my flesh~"
"~Soul of my soul~"
"~He is a new being~"
"~Something that had never existed before~"
L-Sama stopped, paused for a moment before she continued.
"~Everything that is, comes through me~"
"~The Powers, the Planets, Suns, everything~"
"~I am Chaos~"
"~I am everything~"
"~There were only two states of being~"
"~Chaos and Not-Chaos~"
"~Nothing in between~"
"~Whenever both states met, there were violent clashes~"
"~Alexander~"
"~My Child~"
"~He is meant to be the In-Between~"
"~Balanced by two opposite Powers~"
"~Balancing everything~"
"~But this has to be his choice~"
Now she looked square at her Child.
"~On the field of battle~"
"~The Site of Light and the Site of Darkness will approach you~"
"~Both will justify their Existence and ask you to join their fight~"
"~I can help you with your decision~"
"~That has to be your own~"
"~But either way it will influence the Existence of Everything~"
She fell silent, stepped forward and hugged Xander close to her. To her
finger, his hair was soft and his skin not as dense as it felt to the
fingers of his soon-to-be lovers. L-Sama could feel his mind whirling
and she could also feel memories of old hurts and abandonment's trying to
dig through his mental walls, to influence his final decision.
But as she had said, she couldn't help him with that, it had to be his
own choice.
"~Don't plague yourself with what might have been~"
"~Or what might will come in the future~"
"~Release your thoughts from the endless circle~"
"~Join with your second mate~"
"~Embrace your destiny~"
"~No matter what will happen~"
"~I am already proud of you~"
She smiled as she nudged a suddenly very shy Wes towards him and as the
multi-colored energy bound Life to Balance and Death and Wesley received
his staff, formed like an Egyptian Ankh, she started to fade from their
view. It hurt her a little to go now, but she was Chaos and if she
stayed on the mortal plane for too long, she would cause great
imbalances in the powerflow.
"~I will see you again, Child~"
She whispered before she unraveled into fast vanishing bands of gold.
***
Xander was a bit dazed. First the joining with Angel as his life-mate,
then his mother's revelations and the joining with Wesley as his other
life-mate... it was all a bit sudden. But all this was forgotten the
moment the connections to his mate had fully formed. It was the moment
when something inside of him stated to bubble and boil. Something very
powerful. At first he fought against it, tried to suppress it deep
inside of him, but the force was too strong to be put away and too
violent to simply let loose. What to do?
Carefully his let a small drizzle of the power raise to the surface of
his being and then infused it into the links to his mates. Slowly, but
steadily he raised the level of the power until the bubbling inside
him died down.
When he opened his eyes, the world around him had changes... or was it
him, who had changed so much? He didn't know and for the moment he didn't
really cared. The way it was now felt right to him and he knew that no
matter what was coming next, he wouldn't face it alone. His being
vibrated with the mental connections of two others who couldn't be any
more different, but exactly their differences made them perfect for him.
For the first time in two lifes he felt whole and so alive.
Ares stepped to them.
"You are in balance now. I really hope you can put an end to that battle,
it is the only war that really shouldn't happen, with the End of All and
so on. Well, are you ready? ... Here we go!"
The room was brightened by a blue flash of light and when it dissolved,
Angels living room was empty.
tbc